THE ORIENTALIST PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT

About this collection

rainworld archive houses one of Austria’s best collections  of 19th  & 20th century  photographs from the Maghreb and the former Ottoman Empire.  Pre-photographic visual documents complement the extensive inventory of vintage photographs.

Online exhibitions on the topic of orientalism and specific photographers  will soon be posted here.

Alois Payer, 1864/1865, Jerusalem. Albumen print, 23.5 x 19 cm.